... remove the French. Eventually this led to armed conflict between France and Vietnam, the French were defeated in 1954. After the war, the Vietminh controlled north Vietnam while an unpopular government setup by the French with it's capital in Saigon controlled the South. After many years of political disagreement, a civil war broke out. The North (the communist Vietcong) and the South ... USA). 1965. With Australia allied to America, it began sending in conscripts (young men forced to join the armed services) and thousands of troops to Saigon to assist the U.S.A. The Australian Governme...

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... to 1973, and at the time, it was the longest that Australia had participated in all-out war. Just over 60,000 Australia soldiers fought in the war with 521 Australian's killed and approximately 3,000 wounded. The Vietnam War was fought not only in Vietnam but also in surrounding countries such as Cambodia and Laos. There are many contributing factors for ... , not individuals. This is used to try to promote the fairest society for everyone as a community. While democracy is used in Australia and means the population is used to elect a government and representatives. Communist forces in T...

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... replaced by the reformist labor government. It wasn't the change from liberal to Labor governments that was so significant, but the result of this change that demanded the publics attention. The Labor government immediately started an anti-war movement and soon enough had the Australian troops removed from Vietnam. This was a win as far as human rights groups were concerned, as the previous ... government had in-lawed compulsory conscription. But with compulsory conscription out-lawed and war becoming less glamorized ... the reality of the times, Dransfield lived the obtrusive 60's mor...

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... seen through the media people back home in Australia were soon realising that this had to stop and stop now! It seemed the more the media showed the more the Australian public wanted the war to stop and their soldier's home. In 1970: Anti-Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Begun In May the first of three moratoriums was held to protest against Australia ... consisted of uni students and hippies, but they were very wrong. There were protestors young and old, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and children (people who would normally never challenge the government) all came to these moratorium...

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... your relationship to be late for a meeting without good reason. Business Meetings. Business protocol has more ritual with government officials than it does within the private sector. When you meet with government officials, a local person will accompany you to make your introduction. Shake hands with everyone present in the room. ... it is appropriate to exchange business cards. Vietnamese prefer to exchange cards with both hands. You will then be invited to sit down. In a government office, your hosts will show you where to sit. Most meetings take place in a conference room rather than ...

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... they believe in human equality and saving the suffering. The other side is the establishmentThese are the upper class aristocrats and bloodthirsty corporations, for example the government, who support the war as long as there is some underlying benefit for them to receive. There are also a few other smaller conflicts which hold ... characters of the play behave. These being the mental patients. The mental patients have been locked away, free from the ideals and behaviour of the Australian society. The war and the conflict it has created to our society have little if any impact on the way ...

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... men believed that the Viet Cong could be swiftly conquered only to come to awareness these guerrillas were a deadly, persistent enemy who were willing to sustain continual casualties, while the U.S. government became just as responsible for inflicting tremendous casualties physically and morally during the war. Young American men went to Vietnam to experience the challenge of danger and the chance to ... was not that splendid. The Australians had a firefight with the Viet Cong. One of the Australians had taken a souvenir off one of the dead bodies of the Viet Cong. The Australian held u...

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... men believed that the Viet Cong could be swiftly conquered only to come to awareness these guerrillas were a deadly, persistent enemy who were willing to sustain continual casualties, while the U.S. government became just as responsible for inflicting tremendous casualties physically and morally during the war. Young American men went to Vietnam to experience the challenge of danger and the chance to ... was not that splendid. The Australians had a firefight with the Viet Cong. One of the Australians had taken a souvenir off one of the dead bodies of the Viet Cong. The Australian held u...

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